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If you've been injured, whether at work or not, you may be entitled to a range of benefits provided as part of your superannuation fund. We can help you understand your superannuation and insurance entitlements so you can be compensated.

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If you’ve been injured on the road, at work or because of no fault of your own, you may be entitled to compensation. Whatever your situation, our personal injury lawyers will do all they can to get the compensation and entitlements you deserve.

If you've been injured or contracted an illness at work, you may be entitled to a range of benefits and compensation under the Workers Compensation Scheme. We have one of the largest and most experienced Workers Compensation teams in Australia.

If you’ve been injured in any circumstance where someone else didn’t take the right amount of care, you may have a case. Slater and Gordon’s Public Liability team have over 20 years of experience in supporting clients to get the compensation they deserve.

Have you been injured in a road accident? We can help you get the compensation you deserve. Our expert team of motor vehicle & car accident lawyers have decades of combined experience in handling all types of transport and motor vehicle accident claims.

Exposure to asbestos can cause a range of serious health issues. Over the past 35 years, we’ve acted for more than 2,500 mesothelioma sufferers and many others suffering from asbestos related lung cancer and asbestosis.

Medical negligence is the failure from a health-care provider to treat you with reasonable skill and care, causing you injury as a result. If you’ve been injured while in the care of a health professional, We can help you get the compensation you deserve.

Exposure to Silica can cause a range of serious health conditions. If you've been exposed to Silica, you may be entitled to compensation. We're pioneers in fighting for victims of dust-related illness and disease.

If you have been injured or fallen ill on military duty, you and your dependents may be entitled to a range of benefits and entitlements. We're Australia’s leading Military Compensation law firm. We can help you get the compensation you deserve.

If you've been injured, whether at work or not, you may be entitled to a range of benefits provided as part of your superannuation fund. We can help you understand your superannuation and insurance entitlements so you can be compensated.

Class actions allow groups of people affected by mass wrongdoings to take action together. We are a leading class action law firm and are well known for our experience in successfully running some of Australia’s most complex and large-scale cases.

You or your business could face a broad range of issues that might require legal assistance - such as disputes with business partners, suppliers, landlords, advisors and other service providers; as well as disputes with government entities. We can help.

Your union membership may give you access to a range of discounted legal services. As Australia's leading trade union and labour movement law firm, Slater and Gordon has a proud history of supporting trade unions to defend workers’ rights.

CommInsure backdates Heart Attack policy definition

An inquiry into the conduct of CommInsure and 12 months of public scrutiny has resulted in the life insurer back peddling on its trauma policy definitions for ‘Heart Attack’ and ‘Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis’.

CommInsure has been under fire since news broke 12 months ago that the life insurer was using out-of-date trauma definitions to deny legitimate claims.

Denied claims could be eligible for reassessment

The life insurance arm of the Commonwealth has announced that it will align its trauma definitions for ‘Heart Attack’ and ‘Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis’ with prevailing medical practice. This will also bring them in line with industry change in the form of Standardised Medical Definitions, which the Financial Services Counsel anticipates will be applicable to all trauma policies commencing 1 July 2017.

For those that have had their claims denied under the former trauma definitions, there is a glimmer of hope as CommInsure declared it would backdate its definition of ‘Heart Attack’ to claims from October 2012.

“This is a very small step in the right direction. It opens the door for consumers who have had their trauma claims rejected based on out-dated Heart Attack definitions to have their claims reassessed and paid.”

Rejected Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis claims can now be reassessed

Consumers with rejected trauma claims for “Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis’ can also have their claims reassessed, but to a not so generous time period of 2014.

While many will remain sceptical about the likely outcome of many rejected claims, the fact that the insurer has already paid out in excess of $1.37 million on reviewed claims leaves some room for optimism.

“We would urge anyone who has previously had a Trauma claim rejected by CommInsure or any other life insurer for either of these two definitions to urgently seek legal advice.”

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